Ex-NJ Firm Name Partner Claims Founder Forced Him Out

By Jake Maher

A former name partner at the New Jersey personal injury firm now known as Corradino & Partners LLC has sued the firm in state court alleging he was forced out of his position by being denigrated in front of firm employees and having his cases forcibly reassigned without his permission.

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Return's Fraud Voids Assessment Deadline, IRS Tells Justices

By Kat Lucero

The IRS can slap a tax assessment against a taxpayer without time constraints when a return is fraudulent, even if a third-party preparer was the scammer, the agency told the U.S. Supreme Court in opposing a woman's petition for relief from what she alleges was her accountant's deception.

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Amputee Keeps $55M Verdict Over Freight Cos., Driver's Estate

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appeals court said on Monday it won't disturb a $55 million verdict awarded to a motorist who lost both of her legs in a collision with a tractor-trailer, holding that there was no miscarriage of justice.

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Feds Say TerrAscend Owes Back $8M Tax Refund

By Sam Reisman

Multistate cannabis operator TerrAscend erroneously received more than $8 million in tax refunds that should never have been issued because of a federal law that bars traffickers in controlled substances from taking business deductions, the U.S. government said in a new lawsuit.

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Food Biz Exec Drops Death Claims Amid Atty Sanctions Bid

By Jake Maher

A New Jersey food industry executive suing the wife of his deceased former business partner on Monday removed insinuations that she played a role in her husband's death amid a since-withdrawn sanctions motion against him and his attorney over the allegations.

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Justices Deny Eli Lilly's Qui Tam Constitutional Challenge

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Eli Lilly's $183 million trial loss to a whistleblower who claimed the drugmaker knowingly defrauded the government by underpaying Medicaid drug rebates.

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Calif. AG Previews Live Nation Remedies At Democratic Forum

By Courtney Bublé

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, one of the state attorneys general of a coalition of states that recently won a jury verdict finding Live Nation illegally established a monopoly over the live music industry, said Monday the next step is a structural overhaul of the conglomerate.

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Justices Won't Decide If Contractor Fees Are Payroll Costs

By George Woolston

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't review an information technology company's bid for full forgiveness of a $7.2 million Paycheck Protection Program loan, letting stand the Third Circuit's decision that the Small Business Administration rightfully denied the request because the company's payments to independent contractors did not count as "payroll costs."

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NY Court Tosses Challenge To Insurers' Anti-Adjuster Clause

By Gianna Ferrarin

A New York federal court permanently dismissed a public adjusting company's proposed class action against a group of insurers over a policy endorsement barring insureds from hiring public adjusters, finding enforcement of the clause did not constitute tortious interference.

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Train Co.'s Claim Construction Dodge Ended IPRs

By Dani Kass

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp.'s attempt to rely on other parties' claim constructions doomed its challenges to Railware Inc. railway traffic control patents, according to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires.

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Brief

Pot Co. Fraud Suit Over $13M Tax Debt Ends In Settlement

By Jonathan Capriel

Investors have agreed to end a lawsuit against the former CEO of cannabis firm Devi Holdings Inc., claiming the executive and early investors hid over $13 million in unpaid taxes to induce $25.9 million in stock purchases that later became worthless, according to a Florida federal judge's order.

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3rd Circ. Revives Webuild Asset Bid In $140M Award Feud

By Caroline Simson

The Third Circuit revived a Chilean construction company's bid to enforce a $140 million arbitral award against Italian construction giant Webuild, alleged successor to award debtor Astaldi SpA, ruling Monday in a precedential opinion that a lower court was wrong to nix the suit on jurisdictional grounds.

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Del Monte Ch. 11 Wind-Down Plan OK'd Over Lender Objection

By Ben Zigterman

Del Monte Foods received confirmation of its Chapter 11 wind-down plan on Monday after a New Jersey bankruptcy judge overruled an objection from a group of minority lenders.

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Freight Co. Gets Ch. 11 Plan OK After Settling Debt Deal Suit

By Alex Wittenberg

Freight services company STG on Monday secured a New Jersey bankruptcy judge's approval of a Chapter 11 plan that will let the debtor cut more than $1 billion in liabilities, weeks after STG resolved major litigation launched by its lenders.

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Series

Judges On AI: How Courts Can Survive The Tech Revolution

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Maria Berkenkotter and Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Lino Lipinsky de Orlov discuss how artificial intelligence has already fundamentally altered the legal system and offer tips for courts navigating deepfakes, hallucinations and a gap in access to AI tools.

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The 2026 Summer Associates Survey

By Daniela Porat

Law students hoping to land summer associate roles at their dream firms have to start applying earlier and earlier, forcing students to strike a difficult balance between focusing on academics and completing applications. Find out how students navigated the ever-competitive process and which firms topped students’ wish lists in the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.

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2nd Circ. Nixes $900M Suit Against Boies Schiller, Dentons

By Caroline Simson

The Second Circuit Tuesday refused to revive a racketeering lawsuit seeking up to $900 million in damages from Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which the BigLaw firms were accused of misleading a former client in relation to a deal, and later arbitration, involving Senegal's state-owned energy company.

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Q&A

She Has A Point: Sheppard's Michelle Replogle

By Theresa Schliep

When Michelle Replogle of Sheppard and Nitika Gupta Fiorella of Fish & Richardson PC were opponents in a patent case, Fiorella said, Replogle stood out for her expertise and respect, which she showed to everyone regardless of their experience or whom they represented in the litigation.

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$1.8B IRS Deal Fund 'Not Slush Fund,' Blanche Tells Senators

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued before a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund announced on Monday as part of the president's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax documents "is not a slush fund."

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Quinn Emanuel Owes More Sanctions In Guardant Fight

By Lauren Berg

Quinn Emanuel and its team representing medical testing company Natera will shoulder further sanctions on top of the $3 million already imposed over the firm's misrepresentations concerning an expert witness in Guardant Health's false advertising case, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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Nelson Mullins Partner Confirmed To SC Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-38 on Tuesday to confirm Sheria Clarke, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, as a judge for the District of South Carolina.

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Brother May Pay Ex-BigLaw Atty's Legal Fees In Insider Case

By Julie Manganis

A former BigLaw associate charged with orchestrating a sweeping insider trading scheme can have his legal expenses covered by his co-defendant brother if the two waive potential conflicts, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said Tuesday.

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Seeborg's Term As Calif. Northern District Chief Judge To End

By Bonnie Eslinger

Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

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Ex-Trader Says Crypto Co.'s Bid For Sanctions Is 'Unfounded'

By Hayley Fowler

A former trader said a cryptocurrency company is using an "unfounded" characterization of his deposition conduct to seek sanctions and lend credence to facts it hasn't otherwise been able to prove in its suit accusing him of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets.

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